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    Dual Hard Drive in HP Laptop?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by stryker213, Dec 16, 2008.

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    Yes, you have two harddrives. ;)
     
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    Normally I'd say it's partitioned, but if you look at the page you linked us to...
    A way to confirm this is to go to system properties (right click my computer) the click the device manager link on the side. Expand the hard drive group, and you should have two different devices there.
     
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    Yeah, thats the same thing they said for me, so im sure it applies. And he has two harddrive bays, so im sure that is what it means. ;)
     
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    stryker213 Newbie

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    DANG!!!! I was actually in pure denial because if it was one drive that was partitioned, I could easily fix this problem. (sigh).

    The main reason I wanted to increase my c: drive is because I am on Christmas break right now and I'm very interested in running a dual boot (XP and Linux). Ideally, I would have like to have all my OS files under one drive. Looks like i'll have to have XP on C: and Linux on D:.

    Thanks for all of the help!
     
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    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    well, you could partition into 2 primary partitions: XP(40GB) and Linux(40GB) on the same drive, then drive D as your workspace+swap file for Linux

    should be faster too, since linux uses two different sources to read/write to(OS and swap)
     
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    Your Welcome.

    So was is dual or single?
     
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    hmmm... tempting. However, I am currently only running XP. With all of my apps, I am currently using 37Gb of my hard drive. Not too sure if its alright If I max out that partition.

    Also, you guys were right. It was TWO separate hard drives. However, when I looked in the Disk Manager, I noticed that there were TWO disks but they had the same exact name. interesting....
     
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    Use windows disk management instead of device manager. It will show the current drives, sizes and partitions.

    If your trying to install Ubuntu, you can just use WUBI to install it without repartitioning
     
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    just used Disk Manager. Looks like there's two volumes, Disk 0 and Disk 1. Both are 74.53GB. So I'm correct to assume that I have two disks instead of one partitioned, right?

    As for the Linux, do you guys think it would be a bad idea if I installed it on my secondary D: drive and run a dual boot on my laptop?
     
    stryker213, Dec 17, 2008
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    1) Yes thats correct

    2) Why do you think it would be a bad idea?
     
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    ok, so I just spent the last few days trying to understand my laptop a little better. Turns out, on of the HP manuals tells you that this particular model has TWO hard drives and that the secondary hard drive should be used to store personal files and not a OS.

    This is kinda annoying since most files that will be saved are defaulted to the C: drive. O well. I appreciate everyone's help/opinions.
     
    stryker213, Dec 19, 2008
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    Tippey764, Dec 19, 2008
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